Angrily:
"Hopefully, his spirits will protect him from me because, when I catch him, I swear he is going to regret ever taking the love of my life away from me! I'm going to whip his buttocks bruise red like a problem child!"
Overly confident, Chi koh was mad at his rival:
"He calls himself a man! Just because he has made a name: so called celebrity with some fake fame...! And stupid bodyguards around him! A day will come and he will bow down on his knees to beg me for forgiveness! He isn't cute as he thinks!"
Chi koh said all envious words he could while driving back to his home in an ordinary silver sedan, promising to deal with Madrat in the most injurious way.
After all, he trashed all Madrat's albums he had ever bought, wanting nothing to do with anything concerning him.
He ceased to be his number one fan, disliked his music nomatter how the public enjoyed it. And whenever he got a chance to, he made it his unprofitable business to talk so negatively about Madrat's name. Chi Koh's daily bread was a prayer asking for any slight opportunity where he could smear dirt on Madrat's name, to tarnish his image. Hence a perfect reason for tailing him with a camera at no payment, taking jealous triggering photos and sending them to Shee Bah.
*****
Shee Bah dialed the number twice to get Chi Koh on phone, but there was no response.
She scratched her head, looking at Madrat with a thoughful expression.
As a woman who had only pure intentions at heart, she never thought that her husband had anything to feel insecure about. Thus far, with an already made up mind, she asked:
"Can we drive? I think I know where to find him at this time of the day!"
"Drive! Right now...? Are you serious?"
It actually felt somehow bothering but, it was his turn to open his ears for his wife's desires.
The level of commitment his wife was putting into the matter was kind of worrying. Giving a strange look, silently, Madrat was wondering in puzzles why, but he couldn't rotate around it for an answer, except to give her what she wanted _ obediently.
After all, an adultery dirt on his shoulders was too vivid to his wife now, too difficult for him to clean off, and undeniable.
As he stared at her while she changed into a lighter cloth, a wary cropped in his mind:
"It's evident she knows that I've been slipping out with Angie behind her back now. I can't pretend not to know her level of jealous. Just a mere thought that I'm flirting with a woman, she can pant anxiously like she's running out of oxygen!"
The wary was hard to ignore. Madrat turned to stare outside the window.
"I need to take advantage of this break to find a better plan, so that I can dodge any scheme she's having against me."
***
In the rear seats, both Shee Bah and Madrat embarked on the road. A black SUV glided down the tarmac on a highway, aiming to find Shee Bah's ex boyfriend Chi Koh. As a celebrity, security was inevitable every time he found himself leaving his house. Next to the driver, sat a bodyguard.
Madrat kept eying his wife in disguise amidst the journey.
A variety of cigarette filters spreading on the living room table, news paper booklets from different news outlets littering everwhere on the coach and down on the floor, takeaway packets; some empty and others having leftovers within _ perhaps from different days ago, scattering around the coach, including a good number of beer bottles. A very dirty and careless resident, Chi koh was; on a rolling chair infront of a wide screen, busy playing online video games for money.
Maybe clean avenues for earning money were taboo to him _ not his taste.
Suddenly, knocks pounded hard, outside this disorganized ordinary home, ascending until Chi koh finally got to hear.
He cursed angrily:
"Dammit! This old woman is probably insanely greedy! Can't she give me a break? We texted yesterday and I told her to wait until early next week for rent!"
With a game controller in hand, Chi koh got on his feet, stepped over the litter in his dirty house and headed towards the door to get it. As an individual who seemed to have some criminal traits, perhaps earning a living from chaos, Chi koh found a need to spy first, to see the kind of visitor at his door before he could put his hand on a door handle to face them.
When he looked cautiously through a small ornate opening, he recognized a luxury black SUV parked right opposite his house and the two men putting on black suits standing _ one at his door knocking, and the other at a wider margin, on his small compound grass.
After all, he had been tailing Madrat for two years now, ever since he lost Shee Bah to him.
"This fool took my girlfriend away from me! How dare he bring himself to my territory? Let's find out who the man is! I can smell that bitch Shee Bah inside that fool's SUV too. Obviously she's the GPS. I can tell that's how he has managed to trace my crib!"
With guts, Chi koh hurried up and got his hand on a door handle, to meet his afternoon visitors.
Smiling to men who were not smiling back at him, he said with uncomfortable movements:
"Am not an events manager, neither am I a promoter. Whats the essence of the visit?"
Tough on his face, the man in suit glowed in a hard-core voice:
"You're Chi koh, right? The boss demands to see you, now!"
Chi koh chuckled, blurting:
"The boss? Okay!"
Forging a confidence he lacked, through his small compound, in his boxer pants with no shirt on, swinging a video game controller in hand, Chi koh bossed himself on his way to meet the luxurious black SUV. As soon as he approached the car, the blind window was slid from up, down, bringing his enemy face to face.
Chi koh's eyes met Madrat's.
As if he had not called him a fool minutes ago _ encouraging himself overly confident with vowing statements like; he was going to whip his buttocks thoroughly well to bruise red like a problem child and show Shee Bah that him, Chi koh, is the man worth being with and not that bustard of a weak man Madrat. When he looked in his eyes he froze like ice.
Overly excited to meet such a big celetrity for his first time, in a sudden Chi koh talked, nervously, like he had just gone through an electric shock.
"When did I begin to entertain superstar visitors at my humble place?"
After all, he was just watching him on TV and from a long distance while tailing him.
Gentle, calm and polite, Madrat uttered:
"Chi koh!"
A staunch hawk during a talk with his mirror, Chi koh proved to be a chicken when it came to actually man to man confrontation.
He shrugged excitedly:
"Yes Boss!"